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I mean, I'll probably get this on PS5 anyways, I don't see myself playing this game much in handheld mode.

@alexybubble I mean it's possible, but Konami has a working (and very good) DS emulator via M2 (The recent Castlevania collection), whereas PS2 / GCN are notoriously difficult to emulate in comparison.

Tag Force is middle ground, since they don't have a PSP emulator for Switch (afaik), but it's nowhere near as hard to make one.

It really depends what the budget on this game is.

So many more implies there's at least 4 more games in the collection... wonder which? Stairway, Tournament 2004 + 2005 + 2006, Duel Academy seems like the most likely group of games, with DDM / Destiny Board Traveler as wild cards. But I can't entirely count out the Tag Force games, or any of the DS titles either?

@Gryffin Smash Bros, Pokken, Mario Kart

@JohnnyMind The OG Animal Crossing was cross-gen, but only in Japan.

Giant hands meant New 3DS XL was my jam.

Woah, is the the first time BS content has appeared on... Well literally anything other than the SNES?

We'll see, everything so far has made it look like it's 1, 2 hours at most.

@KingMike As someone who originally played the games on CRT, I can confirm that it was definitely not visible on NTSC CRTs. That was weird to see during my replay. I highly doubt it would have been visible on most PAL sets either, overscan definitely was more than 2 pixels.

As much as I like NA, Europe's designs actually feel relevant for this game.

@deadmaker https://gamerant.com/concord-removed-from-playstation-libraries/
Here's one!

@deadmaker Nope, this is in response to sony deleting games off people's hardware as soon as they connect to the internet, not just removing from the storefront.

@IceEarthGuard The Crew and Concord are the two I'm aware of. Both only the PS versions afaik?

@NintonicGamer Both Sony and Ubisoft have deleted games off people's systems with no warning (The Crew and Concord) and revoked their licenses. Sony at least had the decency to refund peeps but...

@Tasuki They could always use Jennika instead.

@OctolingKing13 Controllers are usually marked as controllers in filings like these, that's what's weird. Anyways, an MM Wave sensor doesn't make sense in a device you hold, assuming they're using it for it's most common use, human position detection.

Frankly, I think we're looking at Nintendo doing Kinect, which is hilarious to me.

@Arkay Bayonetta remains the only IP I do expect Nintendo to purchase down the line, just because the whole situation is silly as is. But with Kojima gone maybe Nintendo won't invest in it...? Idek.

@Haruki_NLI Even back when that happened there were hints that W101's trademark may have been involved in that deal. It is nice to see trademarks get into less complicated licensing scenarios, makes additional games more likely.

Still... I wonder when we'll get the next Astral Chain will be? Nintendo never buys IPs (literally even all the companies they've bought have been IP free), I can't imagine they'd do that just to sit on it.

Regarding CRTs, The DKC trilogy is absolutely one that's best played with a really good CRT filter these days. The games were clearly built to take advantage of everything CRTs could offer to squeeze out those extra bits of graphics. Even the Switch's CRT filter is far better than playing it with sharp pixels.

That goes for a good chunk of the SNES's library though. The more complicated pixel art allowed for way more art tricks in that generation.

Anyways, DKC is amazing, though not as good as DKC2 (that's one that might actually hold up against ALttP / Super Metroid, with far less... 'BS' design decisions.

@Truegamer79 I'd say 5 for BotW and 7 for TotK. BotW has Hyrule Castle beyond the core four, and TotK has the four temples, Hyrule Castle (again), Construct Factory / Spirit Temple (basically one dungeon across two locations, similar to Spirit Temple in OOT), and the final Chasm.

While you can probably argue about Chasm / both Hyrule Castles, Spirit Temple is pretty clearly the fifth major dungeon of TotK.

@Elbarbo To be fair to PS5, every system tends to drop for a couple weeks prior to the release of a revision. We'll see what happens when Pro launches.

@PikminMarioKirby February 21st this year had Battletoads and Killer Instinct drop on a Wednesday. May 15th had Mario Land.

@DripDropCop146 Ah yes, 3 Mario is Missings, Mario Teaches Typing, Hotel Mario, the Wand of Gamelon, Mario Party 1-8 + the mobile games, Mario Kart 1-6, 4 Mario Tennis, 4 Mario Golf, Mario DDR Mix, Super Sluggers, 5 Dr. Marios, 2 Sports Mixes, Pinball Land, Picross, 3 Paper Marios, 3 Mario and Luigi's, Super Mario RPG, Links Crossbow Training, Four Swords Adventure and more, all remastered in HD in one collection. Very likely.

@LadyCharlie As someone who's played 3.0.1 pretty much daily since it came out... you can't be missing much, the game is bug free.

I love the flowers. Won't get a plush but I did think they were wonderful.

@UltimateOtaku91 @Tibob
I'd assume Prime 2 & 3 won't have any story impact on 4 whatsoever, the plot points they introduced were all wrapped up nicely. You should be looking for Hunters instead.

@Zeebor15 You should probably listen to them then.

@Zeebor15 I think you might need to adjust your thinking. Looking at sales data in the last 3-5 years has show a major swing towards the purchasing of full size titles digitally, to the point where it's about 50/50 on average.

They really want to boost NSO numbers this year. Wonder if they're worried it'll collapse when Splatoon 3 ends with no 1st party GaaS left active other than kinda sorta ScVi.

Gotta go Team Future, Deep Cut deserves the help

@TheSaneInsanity I'm excited, just not as excited as I am for Prime 4 lol.

@traceman Wha? Based on what data? Not saying you're definitely wrong, but I also haven't seen anything but JP numbers for the remaster. As of this week JP only shows 150,591, while we know it sold over 1 mil in Japan alone on the 3DS.

Admittedly the rest of the worlds data could theoretically make up for the shortfall, but... it doesn't seem likely it's anywhere near outsold the 3DS version (yet at least)

@dew12333 Yeah, I'm a computer engineer, so working with these systems is actually something I do lol. I can tell you right now that the way it's taught is pretty simple:

1. Take an image / video
2. Tag it with useful keywords
3. Convert it into a series of chunks
4. Use those chunks to reinforce / weaken nodes in the algorithm.

(Okay yes this is absolutely simplified, but the core idea is this)

It's a little more complicated than tracing, but there's no learning going on. A neural net can only spit out replicas of what was fed into it, in terms of the lines and shapes. Due to the nature of the way they're programmed, there's literally nothing in it capable of understanding why the lines, shapes, and colors were chosen, an then making decisions off of that.

Instead, it just takes the inputs (Tags + a random seed value) and generates something from it. Given the same tags and the same RNG seed value, it will always produce the exact same product. In other words, it's not making artistic decisions. Which is why things like six / four fingered hands are so common.

@dew12333 The problem is that what they're calling 'AIs' aren't AIs. They're black box algorithms, but there's no intent or understanding within them. As they lack any sort of intelligence, they can't actually interpret other works and use them as inspiration. Instead, they're more like automated collages, taking pieces of other art wholesale and just combining them together with no rhyme or reason.

Obviously human created art is capable of being problematic too (see anytime someone starts tracing and claiming it as their own). But since anything one of these algorithms spits out is equivalent to tracing, you need permission on what you want to trace.

@Zeebor15 Eh, forget the Blackjack.

@nessisonett Probably not. There aren't any logos or boxart so it won't fall under copyright law, and a historical list of games should qualify under trademark fair use... I think.

@Maubari Still haven't played Black Knight... which is crazy considering I 100%ed Secret Rings.

@Maubari I'd go a couple years further back. Honestly, even 3 & Knuckles / CD were far more story heavy than most of their contemporaries. But really Adventure in 1999 was the first one to try and go deep, even if it's not up to the quality of Adventure 2's story.

Also, I actually kind of enjoy Lost World's story... even if the game itself is mediocre at best.

As a team I had to vote for Off The Hook, but Big Man manages to just barely eke out over either individual member of that duo.

Still... final rankings?
1. Big Man
2. Marina
3. Pearl
4. Shiver
5. Marie
6. Callie
7. Frye

1. Off The Hook
2. Deep Cut
3. Squid Sisters

Not that I dislike any mind you...

@CaleBoi25
FinalFest as idols would likely have to feature each of the 3 groups pushing their own team on the announcement, instead of just Deep Cut's individual members.

@Bizzyb Halo wouldn't adopt it for several years, COD wasn't even out yet, James Bond wouldn't that gen, MoH, Rainbow Six and SOCOM never did as far as I'm aware, Splinter Cell debuted post-prime, DOOM was on hiatus... Yeah as far as I can recall it's at least the first major FPS to do so.

EDIT: Though I will give Halo props for having a HUD that really looked like it matched the graphical style of the game prior to Prime anyways.

@Dogorilla I blame google (and me being lazy), I googled it to check, looked at the text on google's page and didn't click in to the actual result where the price had been updated lol.

@sketchturner Good to know! Most of my info comes from two sources who barely use it since they got it, so I'm well aware my views are probably biased lol.

@PikminMarioKirby In the original, you could just choose gender (i.e. what pronouns the game used), but it didn't have any effect on the character's graphics or the story. Later remakes (I think the SNES one started it?) added a fully separate design.

No idea why the Heroine didn't make it into Smash other than maybe Sakurai deciding to focus on adding as many Hero's of different games as costumes instead of multiple versions from the same game.

@sketchturner I'd argue it's unlikely it won't run them better than Steam Deck does. A crafted port designed for specific will typically perform better than a PC port with comparable hardware. And it seems unlikely to me that the Steam Deck will outperform the Switch 2 in any significant way, given what we've already found out from the shipping logs. (The Steam Deck 2 will but that's a few years out probably).

On top of that, my only experience trying to use a steam deck of a friends was finding that most games I wanted to play on it didn't actually run on it. And I'm not just talking major titles and VR, but plenty of older titles (I recall Thomas was Alone, Megaman Legacy Collection, and Persona 4 Gold were all were no-gos that stood out for being ridiculous. I didn't have a very large library to test with, but I do recall more than half weren't compatible). And one of my friends was ranting at me that Mass Effect tends to crash a lot on their steam deck, but not on PC, so they can't play it portable.

I'll admit I mostly here people complaining about steam deck's supposedly massive issues, so I'll ask, has all of that changed?

@Dogorilla Seriously? It's still $60 in the states.

@ScalenePowers It could be because Directs are aimed at all audiences, and this is an age restricted trailer.

@Spider-Kev You clearly haven't played this game. It's a polished masterpiece, with far less bugs and glitches than the original TTYD. Outside of two of those typos (which I am glad they're fixing), I haven't encountered a single issue.

I do know about some of the softlocks they mentioned, and the conditions to trigger them are insane and require you to do things in an order that no casual player would even consider, or very heavily exploit level geometry with frame perfect movement. Not exactly stuff you can blame QA testers for missing.

In any case, my point is this release is far less buggy at launch than most GCN era games (even with the later print revisions that patched games that were frequent in the time before downloading patches), so your comment is wildly irrelevant.

@sketchturner The list of PS4/XB1 era games still is huge, and PS3/360 still has a large number of notable gaps. Kingdom Hearts, FF VII Remake / Rebirth, The last few console Monster Hunters, Nier, MGS IV+, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, all the last gen Resident Evils, Shenmue, Yakuza, Street Fighter VI, KoF XIV and XV (both of which SNK has hinted are coming to the successor), etc. It's not as big a potential library this go around, but there's more likely to also be more same-gen ports as well.

On top of which, any game that only got a Cloud version (which basically kills the idea of playing it portably) or a terribly compromised port is a candidate to get a real release.

As for the first, Nintendo seems to have turned to the GCN. There are plenty of gems on there that few people have played, and a modern coat of polish could make them stand out. Luigi's Mansion, Eternal Darkness, Star Fox (Either), Prime 2, Wind Waker (also on the Wii U), FE Path of Radiance, there's still a mine for them to cash in on. Plus Woolly World and XCX on the Wii U. There's just about enough games to match the number of GCN + Wii U ports on Switch.

On top of which, Nintendo has far more third party partners and more internal studios entering this gen then when they entered the Switch era.

I don't think it'll match the sales, but I'm not sure your reasoning for why holds.

@PinderSchloss I just sent in 8 controllers to get fixed, and they all were for $0 (didn't even pay for shipping). I think they may have learned a lesson on that one lol.

@YunoboCo It's a first party Sony title, and I think it was on its first major sale this month?